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From Ynet News
IDF troops prepare for possible incursion into Syria
Military assessments foresee possible infiltration of terrorists with heavy weapons, rebel takeover of Druze village; IDF posts video documenting elimination of four Druze who laid explosives on border fence last April.
The IDF has already prepared plans to attack Syria in light of a recent military assessment that Iran has opened a new front against Israel on the Golan Heights.
Military exercises in the area over the last two weeks have focused primarily on a scenario of offensive operations inside Syrian territory in response to possible action from the Syrian border such as the infiltration of dozens of terrorists armed with anti-tank weapons, machine guns, grenades and light weapons into one of the communities along the border.
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From The Telegraph
Jeremy Corbyn accused of being ‘anti-semitic’ as Labour grandees round on hard Left leadership frontrunner
Lord Hattersley, the former Labour deputy leader, told The Telegraph that Mr Corbyn would have no right to ‘impose’ his views on the party as he called on MPs to openly rebel against his policies should he win
Jeremy Corbyn was accused of being an anti-Semite by one of Labour’s most senior politicians last night as a series of party grandees rounded on the hard-Left candidate.
Ivan Lewis, the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, attacked Mr Corbyn’s “anti-Semitic rhetoric” and said the party must have “zero tolerance” for such views.
Mr Lewis said he was “saddened” that people on the Left of the party had failed to take a “no ifs, no buts” to anti-Semitism.
Jeremy Corbyn, MP for Islington North, at the Mayday Demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, in 2013 Photo: Alamy
It came as both Liz Kendall and Yvette Cooper called on their supporters to pick anyone but Mr Corbyn as second and third preferences as other grandees spoke out.
From PressTV
Israeli forces attack rally in support of Palestinian hunger striker
Israeli forces have attacked Palestinian demonstrators who were marching in solidarity with Mohammed Allan, an activist who recently fell into a coma following a two-month hunger strike in an Israeli jail.
On Saturday, dozens of demonstrators were injured when Israeli soldiers fired rounds of live ammunition, used tear gas and sprayed wastewater mixed with chemicals to disperse the crowd in the town of Kafr Qaddum, located near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia.
Morad Eshteiwy, coordinator of the Popular Struggle Committee, a Palestinian organization, said the protesters called for an end to the Israeli occupation and crimes in the Palestinian lands as well as the unconditional release of all prisoners in Israeli custody.
Eshteiwy added that an Israeli bulldozer broke a water pipeline in the region, causing a complete cut of water service to Kafr Qaddum.
Many Palestinians reportedly received treatment by local medics after inhaling tear gas during Saturday’s rally.
Allan, 31, slipped into unconsciousness on August 14 after 60 days into his hunger strike. He refused food to draw attention to his prolonged detention in an Israeli jail without charge or trial.
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From PressTV
Israeli forces shoot Palestinian dead
Israeli forces have shot a Palestinian dead in the occupied West Bank after he allegedly wounded an Israeli trooper in a stabbing attack.
The 16-year-old Palestinian, identified as Ahmad Kamel Taj, was gunned down in the village of Bita south of the city of Nablus on Saturday.
Israeli forces alleged that the 16-year-old Palestinian attacked and slightly wounded an Israeli trooper with a knife.
“An assailant stabbed a Border Police officer at the Beta Junction, south of Huwara”, claimed the Israeli military, adding that the “forces on scene responded immediately, shooting and wounding the attacker.”
Abdelhalim Jaafreh, head of the Red Crescent in Nablus, announced later that the Palestinian had succumbed to injuries sustained during the Israeli attack.
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From PressTV
Israeli settlers beat Palestinian worker with steel rods
A group of Israeli settlers have attacked a Palestinian worker in occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem), landing him in hospital with a broken hand and a number of other injuries.
The Palestinian man, identified as 31-year-old Loay Bakri, was repairing a traffic light in the settlement of Pisgat Ze’ev, which is located in the northern part of East al-Quds, earlier this week, when he was approached by six young Israelis, Ma’an news agency reported on Friday.
Bakri was attacked with steel rods and suffered a broken hand and multiple injuries in the assault. He was taken to a hospital in East al-Quds to receive medical treatment.
The development comes in the wake of the recent death of an 18-month-old Palestinian baby boy in an arson attack on his home by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
On July 31, a large fire broke out after settlers threw firebombs and Molotov cocktails into two Palestinian houses in the town of Duma, located 25 kilometers (15 miles) southeast of Nablus. Palestinian toddler Ali Sa’ad Dawabsheh burned to death as a result.
From Ynet News
Huckabee heads to the Holy Land
Republican presidential hopeful to visit with unspecified officials on Iran nuclear deal which he and his colleagues vehemently oppose. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee says he’s heading to Israel this week to raise money and meet “with a number of officials” to discuss the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran.
Huckabee opposes the agreement, like nearly all his Republican colleagues.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Trump: Obama, Kerry ‘sold out’ Israel on Iran
(JTA) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry hurt Israel through the recent agreement on Iran’s nuclear program.
“Israel was sold out by Kerry and Obama,” Trump said at an Iowa campaign event Saturday, according to The Jerusalem Post. “You cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. You can’t have it. When they march down the street saying ‘Death to Israel. Death to the United States.’ You can’t let that happen.”
Trump seemed to imply that he would take a tougher stance on Iran, pointing to himself and saying, “Believe me, it will not happen here.”
The billionaire real estate mogul is a vocal supporter of Israel and a harsh critic of Obama’s policy toward Israel. In a February interview, Trump said Obama “is the worst enemy of Israel.”
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Op-Ed: Obama is ‘dog whistling’ about Jews? Ridiculous
CHICAGO (JTA) — Debaters know that when they are losing an argument, a good tactic is to change the subject. So it goes with the current accusations, completely untethered from reality, that President Obama is resorting to anti-Jewish “dog whistles” in his defense of the nuclear deal with Iran.
Let’s begin with the facts. The president has continuously requested that opponents of the deal present an alternative that actually stands a chance of being implemented. None have been forthcoming.
The mantra that more pressure will cause Iran to shut down its nuclear program is belied by the country’s history of proceeding full steam ahead in spite of severe economic hardship from existing sanctions. It also ignores the fact that the most effective sanctions, those enforced by the international community, are soon to be abandoned.
More recent suggestions, that Iran will be well-behaved even without a deal because it fears the consequences of nuclear development, reflect an abandonment of the underlying motivation for negotiating with Iran in the first place. Overall, the call for “a better deal” is empty in the absence of a credible explanation of what it means and how we get there.
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From PressTV
Petition to arrest Netanyahu on UK visit gains momentum
More than 60,000 people in the UK have so far signed the petition calling for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested for war crimes against Palestinians when he pays an official visit to Britain next month.
The online petition, uploaded on August 7 to the UK parliament’s official website, demands the apprehension of Netanyahu for the slaughter of thousands of Palestinians during the Israeli military’s 50-day military war against the Gaza Strip last year. The petition has garnered 60,454 signatures as of Sunday morning.
“Under international law, he should be arrested for war crimes upon arrival in the UK for the massacre of over 2,000 civilians in 2014,” the petition says, referring to the 65-year-old Israeli premier’s scheduled September visit.
After 10,000 signatures, the British government must respond to the petition, and after 100,000 signatures, it will be considered for debate in the parliament. The deadline for signing the petition is February 7, 2016.
However, the Israeli Ministry for Foreign Affairs said in a statement earlier this week that the petition has “no real meaning,” adding, “Bilateral ties between Britain and Israel are closer than ever before.”
Israel unleashed its military onslaught on the impoverished Gaza Strip in early July 2014. The offensive ended on August 26, 2014, with a truce that went into effect following indirect negotiations between representatives from Palestinian resistance movement Hamas and Israeli regime in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
Nearly 2,200 Palestinians, including 577 children, lost their lives in Israel’s war. Over 11,100 others – including 3,374 children, 2,088 women and 410 elderly people – also sustained injuries.
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From The Times of Israel
Testing reportedly shows Islamic State used mustard gas on Kurds
Samples from attack in Syria two weeks ago confirm use of nerve agent or precursor, officials say
Testing has reportedly confirmed that Islamic State militants used the mustard gas nerve agent against Kurdish troops in Syria in recent weeks, according to US officials.
Unnamed officials speaking to CNN over the weekend said samples analyzed from an attack several weeks ago showed signs of mustard gas, though it was not clear how much was used or at what concentration.
Fears grew late last week that Islamic State fighters were in possession of the chemical weapon after the German defense ministry reported a chemical attack on Kurdish troops training in northern Iraq last week, though they were unable to determine what agent was used.
Samples from an attack last week outside Makhmour, Iraq, near the Kurdish capital of Irbil, were also sent for testing, according to CNN.
A US official told the Washington Post the Obama administration was not surprised by the reports of the chemical attack in Makhmour, given the results of the testing.
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From The Times of Israel
Rubio: Obama didn’t make a deal with Iran, he just gave concessions
GOP hopeful also castigates president for demonizing domestic critics of accord as warmongers and lobbyists with money
WASHINGTON — Characterizing President Barack Obama’s foreign policy as one of “weakness and concession,” top-tier Republican presidential candidate Senator Marco Rubio attacked the administration’s approach to Cuba and Iran as “the convergence of nearly every flawed strategic, moral and economic notion that has driven President Obama’s foreign policy.”
He lambasted Obama for making a string of concessions to Iran, and for demonizing domestic critics of the controversial P5+1 powers’ nuclear accord.
Speaking on Friday morning before the conservative-leaning Foreign Policy Initiative, Rubio promised that on his first day in office, he will establish a three-part plan to “roll back President Obama’s deal with Iran and repair the damage done to America’s standing in the Middle East.”
His plan, Rubio said, will first reimpose sanctions on Iran, including “crushing new measures that target human rights abusers and Iran’s leaders involved in financing and overseeing Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism.”
He would then terminate defense sequestration – the limitation of the US defense budget as part of across-the-board federal budgetary cuts – and “ensure our forces in the Middle East are positioned to signal readiness and restore a credible military option.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
‘Schindler’s List’ producer raps pro-Iran deal letter by prominent L.A. Jews
(JTA) — A producer of the film “Schnidler’s List,” Gerald Molen, criticized an open letter signed by nearly 100 prominent Los Angeles Jews supporting the recent accord on Iran’s nuclear program.
Molen, who won an Academy Award for the 1993 film about the Holocaust, wrote an email opposing the agreement to [email protected], the email account set up by the letter’s signatories, The Hollywood Reporter reported Friday. Molen wrote that Iran is not a trustworthy negotiating partner, and that the agreement will allow it to obtain nuclear weapons down the line.
Molen also expressed concern that Iran will use money freed up in the deal with the relief of sanctions to finance terrorism against Israel.
“Can we trust Iran? Do they not deny the Holocaust? Do they not invest in terror organizations?” Molen wrote, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “This will more than likely push the inevitable nuclear crises out of many of the signers’ lifetimes and onto the backs of their grandchildren or great-grandchildren.”
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From Russia Today
Germany to withdraw its anti-air missiles from Turkey
The defense ministry confirmed that the contingent of the Bundeswehr, the German army, taking part in a NATO operation called Active Fence Turkey (AFTUR), along with its Patriot missile systems, would be withdrawn from the Turkish border by the end of January 2016, after its mandate ends.
In a statement published on the German Defense Ministry’s website, the ministry confirms it will not extend the mandate to protect the southern Turkish border beyond the two and a half years of service it has already rendered.
